Sending troops to Ukraine to stop the invasion would quickly escalate the war and hurt a lot more people than economic sanctions.
It's prefer Russia to be poor if we have to fight them.
Yes, there is no better alternative than sanctions.
At the end of the day, no sane person would place their family in mortal danger to maybe possibly potentially make life easier for a large number of unknown far away people.
Yes, see Romania 1989. Over 1000 people died in the streets but we got the job done.
> At the end of the day, no sane person would place their family in mortal danger to maybe possibly potentially make life easier for a large number of unknown far away people.
US military personnel did this. Invading Iraq increased the risk of terrorism in the US to make life easier for a few haliburton board members.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
[1]: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C...
Every democratic country in the world had at one point a few brave souls who were both sane and put themselves and their families in mortal danger to “maybe possibly potentially make life easier for a large number of unknown [not yet born] people”.
So yeah, it happens and is relatively common in history. I hope the Russian people find some extra courage and get Putin to step away from Ukraine and also Russia.
What alternative do we have left? Sanctions is just the least bad thing.
Either way you have connections to actual Russians, now is the time to use them.
They're at war. Preparing to be bombed. Let's cut them some slack.
edit Realized that my comment was aggressive. Rewrote it a bit. Apologies for the first formulation.